How many railway zones in India and what are they?
Answers
There are 17 railway zones starting from central railway headquartered in Mumbai and the Divisions are
Mumbai central
Nagpur
Pune
Bhusawal
Sholapur
The second one is Northern railway headquartered in Delhi and the Divisions are
Delhi
Ambala
Firozpur
Moradabad
Lucknow north.
The third one Eastern Railway having controlled from Kolkata and the Divisions are
Asansol
Howrah
Malda
Sealdah.
Fourth Southern railway being in Chennai and the Divisions are
Chennai
Trichy
Madurai
Salem
Palakkad
Trivandrum.
Fifth one Western Railway administered from Church gate of Mumbai and the divisions are
Bhavnagar
Vadodara
Ahmedabad
Mumbai western
Rajkot
Ratlam.
South Central zone controlling from Secunderabad and the Divisions are
Secunderabad
Hyderabad
Vijayawada
Guntur
Guntakal and
Nanded.
Seventh one East Coast controlled from Bhubaneshwar and the Divisions are
Khurdaroad
Waltair and
Sambalpur.
Eighth one East central controlling from Hajipur and the Divisions are
Sonepur
Danapur
Dhanbad
Mughal Sarai and
Samastipur.
Ninth one North East frontier Zone having its control from Gauhathi and the divisions are
Tinsukia
Lumding
Rangiya
Katihar and
Alipurduar.
Tenth one North central Administered from Allahabad and the divisions are
Agra
Allahabad and
Jhansi.
Eleventh one North East Railway being controlled from Gorakhpur and the divisions are
Izzathnagar and
Varanasi.
Twelfth one North Western Railway administered from Jaipur and the divisions are
Jaipur
Jodhpur
Ajmer and
Bikaner.
Thirteenth one West Central Railway-Jabalpur and the divisions are
Bhopal
Kota and
Jabalpur.
Fourteenth one South East getting control from Kolkata and the divisions are
Adra
Chakradharpur
Ranchi and
Kharagpur.
Fifteeth one South east central Administered from Bilaspur and the divisions are
Bilaspur
Raipur and
Nagpur (Bahmini).
Sixteenth one South western railway controlled from Hubballi and the divisions are
Bengaluru
Hubballi and
Mysuru.
Seventeenth one Konkan getting administered from panvel of Navi Mumbai and the division(s) are(is)
Ratnagiri